You Can Have Your Drug War Wars have casualties, and sometimes innocent bystanders are hurt. For some exceptionally evil people the whole point of the war is to hurt innocent bystanders. From the November Coalition's newsletter, Razorwire: (please read the entire article)
Prominent organizer Charles Kiker is a retired Baptist minister and Tulia resident who helped found Friends of Justice. He told the Daily Texan, "When I read in the paper that 43 people in the little town of Tulia had been arrested for selling powder cocaine, I thought, boy, we've got a big drug problem in this little town. My wife is quite a bit smarter than I am, and she asked, 'If 43 people are selling drugs in Tulia, who are the buyers?'"